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.CLAUDE A. BETTINGTON, OF JOHANNESBURG, TRANSVAAL STEAM-BOILER. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, CLAUDE ALBEMAnLE BETTINGTON, a lieutenant .in the British army, domiciled at Johannesburg, in the Transvaal Colony, in South'Africa, but temporarily residing in Boston, in the county of Sufiolk and State of Massachusetts, have-ins vented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam-Boilers, of which this instrument is a specificatlon.

My invention relates to boilers for generating steam ordinarilyunder pressure, preferably from water distributed in small spaces connected with each other and with the steam space, which may be constructed of detachable parts and in sections, looking toward the production of steam at as high pressures as can be employed, with economy in the distribution of material and high .efliciency of fuel. Y

The objects of my invention are to secure the greatest transfer of heat from the products of combustion to. the water, the lowest volume of water and of flue gases, the keeping down of the furnace temperature by the immediate transfer of heat from the burning gases before combustion is complete, to provide full tubes, of water only at the temperature of the steam in the boiler at those points where the highest temperatures arejmet, and to secure free and-efficient circulation throughout the boiler, and by the separation of the steam and water, to obtain drier steam at all rates of evaporation without superheating, to arrange the circulation of both the water and furnacegases so that longer and smaller tubes may be safely used without risk of burning, to provide against loss of heat by radiation, by conduction, and by the outgoing of the flue gases in large volume at high temperatures, to obtain rapid steaming and forcing with, out danger, to provide a boiler without large oration, to provide for the evaporation of fore the destruction ofany part would occur from overheating, to obtain reduction of Specification of Letters I'atent. Paijnted Oct, 25-, 1910, Application filed June 19,1906. Serial No. 322,484.

weight and greater compactness with less' parts, the protection of joints from high temperatures, to provide headers of simple construction and greater strength and lower. cost, and to prevent fouling of the tubes, both externally and internally; to make all arts accessible, independent, easily detachab to provide greater facilities for cleaning, repairing, reassembling, and renewing, by providing a construction requiring less time for stripping the boiler, to provide for temporary increase of combustion, ordinarily limited in other constructions by the grate area, so that the boiler may be forced greatly in -excess of-the ordinary rating, to obtain great flexibility of construction, and adaptation to widely different systems of firing, and also to all fuels capable of motion or suspension in air, to adapt the structure to economizers and to an air heating or feed-water heating system, to secure prompt, steaming in the shortest time in emergencies, whether starting from cold water or from suspended combustion or low combustion, to provide a self supporting boiler, to secure instant transition from the lowest rate of combustion to the highest and the reverse, and to attain perfect combustion without smoke.

Other objects will appear from the descript-ion following.

After many years of practical experience with most ofthe best known types of boilers, all of which have defects pecullar to their respective types, I have in my boiler combined most of their good qualities and.

le, and in removable sections,

a few of its modifications, all illustrating the principles of steam generation and combustion w ich Ihave embodied in my invention, and which I describe as applied in water tubeboilers having a combustion chamber using pulverulent solid fuel or oil or inflammable gases or all combined; or supplied-with hot gases from an ordinary fire; but many other "ariations and adaptations will suggest themselves to those familiar with the art, all of them within the range of mechanical skill.

Figure .1 is an elevation of my complete boiler, with feed water economizer and air heater, partly in vertical section, with a combustion chamber suitable for solid lump fuel or equally for pulverulent or liquid or gase: ou's fuels. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same showing the continuous steam and water drum and the inner top row of headers for the water tubes, and at the cut away portion showing a complete removable section of the lfeaders for the steam and water tubes. Fig. 3 is a foundation plan showing the fuel pipe and the feed water and blow-off piping system, and channel irons upon which the boiler rests. Fig. 4 is a detail of the water tubes, headers and caps. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevat1on on the same scale as Fig.4, both enlarged. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of a modlfication of my boiler showing a brick dome tdp to the combustion chamber instead of t the preferred composite to of Fig. 1 and without an economizer, an dischar es the gases at the top of "the boiler instea of at the bottom. Fig. 7 is another modification of my boiler having a composite brick and water top, a globular mud-drum surrounding the fuel pipe, the furnace containing interior tubes lowering the temperature and without a water eoonomizer, theouter covermg forming an an heater; an 011 spray burner is 'also shown. Fig. 8 is another .modlficatlon showinga special form of furnace. Fig. 9 is a sectlonal view of the same 'online 1010, but with tubes B and B omitted. Fig. 10 is a vertical section of my lmproved boiler in a simple form without mechanical-details or accessories. Fig. 11 is across-section on the line 12-1201 Fig. -10. F1gs. 12, 13, 14 and 15 illustrate combinati ons of water tubes and refractory material, suitably arranged for forming the walls of the combustion chamber.

A is a continuous steam and water drum,

and a and 0:. are spring bends joining the parts of the drum.

B andB' are water tubes connected at the 'bottolra-with' the feed water systemand at thetop withwater tubes B and also through dgwn comersv b with the steam and water A, and at the bottom with steaming water tubes B and B?, and at the top with collecting pipes and a receiving pipe, and through them with the steam and water drum A.

B and B are Field water tubes.

B is a steam and water chamber.

6 and b are connecting pipes.

b and b are water tubes.

C is the central combustion chamber.

C is a furnace.

D is a combined mud drum and water jacket.

E is a wall or column of refractory material.

E and E are baffle walls.

E is a furnace wall of refractory material.

F is the fuel flue leading from the pulverizer and blower into the combustion chamber at the bottom.

F is a trap with a slide and a hand hole f.

G is a combined fuel pulverizer and blower.

H, H H H, H H are headers.

I is a receiving pipe.

K and K are collecting pipes.

L and L are pipe connections with the mud drum.

M and M are feed water pipes.

M is the feed water inlet.

N and N are channel iron supports.

0 and O are blow olf pipes and equalizers.

P and P are outgoing fines for the escaping gases.

R is the steam outlet.

S is the encircling air space. S is a hot airtube leading therefrom toward the standing incandescent parts, a hi h percentage to heat tending to escape y convection,- and all heat tending to escape by conduction, andthis I achieve by so arranging the mechanical elements of my boiler that from the central region fiercest heat there is'a'progressive descent of temperature to the outer inclosures in all directions, and

V by abstracting heat from the constituent ele ments that would be liable to fusion or burning out by systematically applying it to the heating of water in adjacent tubes. To

this end I employ combustion in any form, I

butpreferably of pulverulent or small size solid fuel or of oil, or of gases injected into the combustion chamber C through the flue F from the combined pulverizer and blower G, orin the case of oil or gas from separate holders, in which combustion chamber the fuel and the supporter of combustion are mingled, preferably in the proportion for perfect combustion, and advantageously as shown in United States Letters Patent to myself and A. M. Robeson jointly, Furnace for burning pulverized fuel and other substances, No. 817,989, April 17th, 1906.

In all furnaces employing pulverulent fuel and analogous elements of combustion. there is great difficulty in providing refractory material that will endure the high temperatures; and yet the combustion must be continuous and exceedingly rapid.abouta second for each molecule. I seek and employ these high temperati'ires because they are the conditions under which perfect combustion can be'attained, but I keep the temperature down by (l) backing the brick- .work against the water tubes. ('2) by surrounding or associating the upward current of air and fuel with-water tubes. (3) by surrounding the fuel fine by the combined water jacket and mud drum D. andalso by the water top formed by the receiving pipe I and the collecting pipes K and K. I may employ also to assist toward this object a mixture of the line gases with the incoming air and fuel.

Construction of the Z 0iZcr.The continuous steam and water drum A is shown in the drawings, Figs. 1 and 2. as six-sided. made in sections joined by spring bends a anda. The water tubes B, B B I arrange preferably also in six sections each containing four double rows. the third of which from the inside is connected with the steam and water drum A by six short downcomers I) through the headers H The outer or fourth double row of tubes receives the feed water from the bottom through the feed .water inlet M. and is connected at the top through the headers H and H with the third double row of water tubes B'-. and through the down comers I) with the steam and water drum A. At the bottom the header H is connected with the header H and that with another header II. so that the downcoming circulating water and steam passes into H, and part of the water only into the header TI and ascends in both headers H 'and H and the water tubes 13* to the top. thence through collecting pipes K into the receiving pipe I and into the steam and water drum A.

The feed water pipes M at the bottom. shown in the ground plan. Fig. 3. receive the feed water from any source of supply at M and distribute it up 'ard through six channels 6", Figs. 1, 3 and 8. one to each of the six sections of water tubes through the outer row of tubes. It also acts as a 'ater equalizer; and so do the pipe connections L and L and mud-drum in Figs. 7 and 8. The blow off pipes O and O are connected through the-lower header H on the inner side of each section of water tubes. The wall E of refractory material. circular or hexagonal in cross-section, or the column as the case may be. protects the adjacent water tubes and is in turn' cooled and protected by the water pipes from fusion, and is shown in the drawings composed of two shells. the inner one a lining. and the outer. a thicker retaining wall. or as a lining only as shownin the modifications in Figs. 7. S and .-\t the lower end the wall is stepped back so that the liquid slags 'are dropped in the slag pit X. clear of the opening through which the hot gases pass into the water tube space.

In Figs. 1 and (i I have shown Field tubes B* and B. suspended from either the receiving pipe I or the collecting pipes K.

ach containing an inner down take tube open at the bottom for water circulation; but the Field tubes may be omitted.

E and E are batlie walls built up from the bottom of the furnace between the outer double row of water tubes B and l". which actas the economizer element. and the next inside double row of water tubes B called the down-comer elements. and this battle wall in Fig. 1 is six-sided in cross-section. QXttllds nearly to the top. and this with the wall I". of refractory material separates the boiler into three.connected chambers. the central combustion chamber t. connecting at the bottom of the walls E with the surrminding concentric chamber, and that connecting at the top with the outer concentric chamber. the latter at the bottom with the outgoing tlues P and P leading to the smoke stack:

the whole may be surrounded with a concentric outer chamber S for heating the air for combustion.

The composite top is formed of the connecting pipes K with refractory tire brick built in between to form perfect inclosures. The boiler may be inclosed with hricluvork or otherwise. but I prefer a metallic sheathing forming an air heater.

The headers at the top are substantiall the same in construction as those at the hottom and are providedwi'th caps. stay bolts. studs and triple clamps in the same manner as the upper ones. the lower headers being inverted. Feed water. blow-ott' and other connections may be screwed directly into any convenient opening in the headers and would not then require clamps. The use of water tubes smaller than usual enables me to arrange two rows of tubes in one header which again makes it possible to use the special clamping device for holding the caps covering the ends of the tubes. While I prefer to employ one header for two rows of tubes, I may employ a header for each row or may have several rows in each'header. The arrangement of caps secured by only one bolt with an outside clamp obviates the necessity of making two face joints on each cap. On removing the caps the attendant may sight through the tubes or pass a brush through.

The operation of my boiler is as follows :Through the feed water inlet M all the water tubes, the headers, the down comers, the combined mud-drum and water jacket are filled with water from the supply tank, not shown, and the combined steam and water drum A is filled to about half its height. The combined pulverizer and blower G is then set in motion by a motor not shown and is supplied with fuel, say soft coal, from a hopper not shown or through the opening S and is supplied with air in proper volume for perfect combustion by adjusting the damper V in the pipe from the outer air passage surrounding the furnace, or by air from the outside through an intake S Figs. 6 and S. The mingled air and pulverulentfuel are blown through the fuel flue F and injected upward from the bottom of the furnace well toward the top of the combustion chamber C. On entering the combustion chamber when cold, the fuel is ignited by kindling wood or oiled waste or by an ignited oil spray shown in Fig. 7. As the furnace warms up, the igniting pulverulent fuel ignites continuously from the burning pulverulent fuel in the furnace and with further heat, rendering the walls E more or less incandescent. the incoming air and pulverulent material ignite at the mouth of the fuel flue F and till the combustion chamber with flame. The combining elemen'ts pass upward and encounter the water top formed in. part by the lower end of the receiving pipe I, are turned downward in mushroom shape'and descend along the wall E until they reach the openings from the combustion chamber into the encircling nest of tubes. They then pass upward enveloping the steaming tubes and the down comers, pass over the top of the battle walls E and E, down the water tube chamber to the outgoing flues P in contact on the outer side with the wall of the air chamber S.

lVhile the elements of combustion during combustion and the hot gases following ;-.o1'11plet.e combustion have an upward and then. a downward motion in the combustion chamber, then a second upward and a second downward motion in the water tube spaces, they have also a radial movement from the central zone of fiercest heat through the concentric chambers outward at progressively lower and lower temperatures until they reach the tines P P for outgoing gases.

The water circulation is progressively in the opposite direction from the outer sections to the center. The feed water entering at M circulates from the bottom of the furnace through the feed water pipe system M M shown in Fig. 3, ascends through pipe connections 6 passes through the economizer element comprising the double outside row of water. tubes B and B, reaches the header H at the top, passes thence into the header H through the passages between them, uniting in the headers H with the circulating water from the steam and water drum A, passes downward through the down comer elements B B reaches the bottom headers H*, from which it passes to the headers H and H, ascending in the two inside double rows of water tubes 13 and B which may be called the steaming elements, reaching the top headers H and H opening one into the other and discharging into the collecting pipes K, six in number, to the receiving pipe I which connects with and forms a part of the steam and water drum A. v

It is obvious that steam may be generated in tubes B and B called the down comer elements, but such steam will be carried with the circulating water to the lower headers H, from which it will pass upward in the nearest tubes containing water circulating upward, while the water will pass on to the inner header H, thus insuring full tubes of water at this point where the fiercest heat first strikes the boiler proper.

The receiving pipe I joins the steam and water drum .A at a point farthest removed from the steam outlet R, thus giving the longest space and the longest period of travel for steam and water to separate. The circulating water then passes down through the down comers b and repeats its course over and over again, the make up to replace that converted into steam being supplied by the proper amount of incoming feed water through M. Thus the water circulation upward, then downward, then upward again through the water tubes into the steam and water drum A also progresses from the outer circumference of the boiler as a whole toward the center of the construction where the heat. is fiercest. The inner tubes 6 I), or the Field tubes B and B, depend from the receiving pipe I and contribute to steam production while abstracting heat from hot other elements through the intake 3*.

sion and undue waste.

I employnumerous details of construction which contribute reatly to the simplicity, strength and sa ety, durability and economy of the boiler. For instance, the triple clamp 3, with one staybolt 1, holds three caps 52 covering the tube ends with one clamp and one studbolt, which at the same time acts as a staybolt and strengthens the header, and this also enables me to open up three tubes at a time by unscrewing one nut and removing one clamp.

The arrangement of my water tubes in sections enables me in case of accident to one, as from a shot on a warship, to disconnect, remove and replace the section with very little delay. I

By the damper V I may admit to the blower and pulverizer inert gases in such proportion as to retard the combustion and reduce its intensity any desirable" extent.

gases, thus protecting the walls E from fu-,

In Fig. 7 I show a modification of my boiler by making the water jacket D of the fuel flue globular and sufliciently large to nearly fill the ash pit and thereby utilize all the downward radiation from the retort. In Fig. 7 modifications are shown requiring. no special description. Feed water is received at the top, the economizer is omitted, the down comers and the steaming elements are connected with the mud-drum through pipe connections L and L forming a water equalizer. It is provided with a manhole and cover affording access to the interior for all purposes, including the ex panding of tubes, cleaning and inspection. An outside air jacket S may be used having a downtake S to the pulverizer and blower G which also may receive air from the outside through S or combustible gases pr 11 Figs. 6 and 7 flue gases pass-out at the top; in Figs. 1 and 8 at the bottom. Fig. 7 also shows an oil tank T and sprayer T for the initial ignition or for contlnuous use, spray lIlg in oil alone to ignite the pulvernlent fuel at the start, or in combination with pulverulent fuel or otherwise. The innermost free circulation tubes 6 are in Figs. 7 and 8 expanded into the collecting pipes K and K and also into the mud drum D.

Fig. 8 shows a modification specially adapted to marine work in that the furnace wall E isbuilt slightly flaring and tends to close up chinks and become more compact with the motion of the'ship. The innermost tubes connecting the collecting pipes K and K to the mud-drum lined by a wall E of refractory material form a furnace confining the upward current until it reachesthe combustion chamber C, providing a definite descend, enveloping the furnace.

within the furnace to path for the incoming fuel and air, the hot gases then radiating out through'the tubes The fuel and the supporter of combustion are injected from below upward, continuous ignition being obtained from the heatcontained in the surrounding brick work and also from small flaming or incandescent particles of fuel, which having. been borne upward with a certain velocity into the burning zone, take fire, but being heavier than the surrounding medium, on losingtheir inertia, begin to fall back into the incoming stream of fuel and support of combustion, causing the same to become ignited; the descending particles will, however, soon find a point of equilibrium from two causes: First :the

friction of the incoming material will tend.

to bear them up, as the lower they fall into the hollow cone the greater will this friction become, owing to the reduced area of cross-section ofsaid hollow conical furnace C, the amount of incoming materialbelng virtually constant. The second cause which will operate on the particles of burning fuel tending to maintain them in a certain equilibrium, will be the result of combustion or oxidation, reducing'their specific gravity or increasing their relative frictional area sufficiently to enable-the friction of the rising material untimately'to entirely overcome the action of gravity and soeventually cause them to pass out of the furnace with the other material and products of combustion.

The escaping products of combustion just referred to on leaving the furnace,- which they will do with more or less upward velocity, will then pass into what. may be termed the mixing or combustion chamber C, in which the complete combustion of what is now practically gas takes place. This action taking place in the presence of the enveloping water surfaces of the boiler, much useful effect is obtained from direct radiation, and-"especially that from the furnace proper, which is virtually a powerful reflector of search light type, from which concentrated on the central collectin and radiating pipes of the boiler. T e very small percentage of-heat radiated through b and passing downward enter radially the second pass of the boiler, at the lower end pass out and upward to the top end of the boiler again, and then in some cases are 110 l V the. greater portion of the radiation .Will be 7 drum allowed to escape to the stack; but where an economizer is provided or where it may be desirable to deflect them downward a sec- 0nd time, they are again made to radiate outward and pass down and into the flue situated at the bottom of the boiler. v

l ,The solid incombustible matter contained in the coal will be largely recipitated at the lower end of the boiler ]ust before entering the second bank of tubes, an ash pit being provided at this point.

An annular space is provided between the fuel pipe and the equalizer drum on which the base of the furnace rests, to enable any foreign substances or solids to pass into the ash pit and-not into the fuel pipe. Any slag that may beformed in the furnace and I does not pass out as a vapor with the produfacture.

nets of combustion may also escape through this annular space. 1

Fig. 6 is a modification of the boiler showing a brick dome top to the. furnace and Field tubes suspended from the collecting pipes K and K down to the lower end of theurnace.

I may provide spiral deflecting plates W between the economizer tubes, giving a whirling motion to the downward descending current of the escaping gases. They may also be provided in the inner tube space.

It is obvious that I may vary the arrangement of tubes within wide limits without departing from the spirit of my invention;

I may decrease the water tubes to one row surrounding the combustion chamber, or I may add to the number indefinitely with or without providing more chambers for the circulation of hot gases.

I may vary the height of-the boiler, the sha e of the various drums, and tubes, may esta lish water chambers for tubes, may make the cross-section of the boiler and of the constituent tubes circular, triangular, square; many sided, elliptical, or of other shapes .in adaptation to the floor space or the duty Y I maintain preferably the principle ofa pro essive decrease of temperature in the pro nets of combustion from the hottest region within to the surrounding air outs1 e, and the progressive increase of temperature of the circulating water from its lowest temperature to the highest. .Or I .may, though with less efliciency, depart from this principle and install the water tubes on any desired plan around the combustion chamber, covering the same with the .pro-.

tecting wall of refractory material, or dispensing with it, or providing such walls in part, or in columns, or in only one place.

in the combustion chamber, or placing the desired or the convenienceof man linin of the combustion chamber between the first (innermost) and second rows of tubes.

I find a body of refractory material within the combustion chamber highly advantageous when pulverulent fuel containing little volatile matter is used and no oil or combustible ses are introduced through the fuel flue for -I find also that this refractory material when incandescent acts to start combustion and render it complete with the minimum su ly of air within the limited period availab e for combustion.

I may use any'supporter of combustion with or without commingled inert gases, or

commingled or not with combustible gases in the combustion chamber, such as the outcome from the converters in the Bessemer furnace, or the waste products of blast furnaces or of other furnaces where combustion has not been complete.

I may introduce the hot products of combustion from an outside furnace, omitting all combustion within my boiler.-

I may have a steam and water drum at the top of the combustion chamber'covering the entiretop, or of any other shape.

I may use in connection with the boiler any desired economizer.

I may use the boiler for any duty, either stationary or marine or locomotive.

For the uses of the navy, it is especially adapted, not only by reason of its high 3 efiiciency, its light weight and relative small quantity of contained water, butfor its capacity for immediate action and forcing without banking fires, and for its smokeless combustion of fuel.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a boiler, the combination of steam and water chambers forming with their connectionsa combustion chamber closed except at or near .the bottom, whereby all the products of combustion double back upon themselves before escaping from the com bustion chamber.

2. In a boiler, the combination of steam and water chambersformingwith their connections a combustion chamber, closed except at or near the bottom whereby all the products of combustion are caused to double back uponthemselves, and an inlet for hot gases located near the bottom of the chamber, substantially as described.

3. In a boiler, a combination of steam and ,water chambers, forming with their connections a combustion chamber, closed ex-' cept at or near the bottom whereby *all the products of combustion are caused to double back upon themselves, and an inlet for fuel and a supporter of combustion located near the open part of the chamber.

. up and [down water tubes connected at top' and bottom by headers forming a combus- 4. In a boiler, a combination of steam and water chambers, forming with their connections a combustion chamber, closed except at or near the bottom whereby all the products of combustion are caused to double back upon themselves, a passage for the products of combustion, an escape for the products of combustion, and an*inlet for combustibles located at or near the open part of said combustion chamber.

5. In a boiler, steam and Water chambers and battle walls formiiig a combustion chamber, inclosed except at the bottom whereby all the products of combustion are caused to double back upon themselves before escaping from the combustion chambers, and steam and feed Water connections, substantially as described. i

6. In a boiler, water tubes, a steam and water drum, steam and feed water connections forming a combustion chamber, closed except at or near the bottom, a fuel inlet located near the bottom of said combustion chamber, and an 'inclosing .Wall, substantially as described.

1 In a boiler, a combination of water chambers and steam and water chambers which with their connections form a combustion chamber, substantially closed except at ornear the bottom, a-body of refractory material therein, and a fuel inlet located at or near the bottom of said combustion chamber, substantially as described.

8. In a boiler, a combination of water chambers, or steam and water chambers which with their connections form a combustion chamber, closed except at or near the bottom, a lining of refractory material, and a fuel inlet at the bottom of the combustion .chamber, substantially as described.

9. In a boiler, and water chambersconnected throughout forming a combustion chamber open only at or near the bottom, substantially as described,

10. In aboiler,[ a steam and water drum,

tion chamber closed except at or near the bottom, and an inlet for fuello'cated at or near the bottom of said chamber, substantially as described.

I 11. In a boiler, steam and water chambers forming a combustion chamber, forming also a water channel, a'furnace, a lining, and a case forming with the steam and water chambers and their connections, passageways wherein the combustible elements move progressively from the center outward, substantially as described.

12. In a boiler, thecombination of water tubes, assembled in removable sections and in rows, the outer row'for feed water, the

up and down tubes, steam.

chamber, a furnace, a lining,

where it is ,open, substantially as described.

14. In a device of the class described, chambers adapted to contain a liquid or a liquid and a gas, said chambers forming a combustion chamber closed except at or near the bottom whereby all the products of combustion will .double back upon themselves I before escaping from the combustion chamber, and means for supplying fuel to the said combustion chamber at or near the point where it is open.

15. In a device of the class described, a chamber or chambers adapted to contain a liquid or a gas and a liquid, refractory material, said material and chamber forming a combustion chamber closed except at or nearthe bottom whereby all the products of combustion will double back upon themselves before escaping from the combustion chamber, connections for the first mentioned chamber, and means for supplying fuel to thecombustion chamber at or near the bottom of said chamber.

16. In a boiler, the combination of water chambers or steam and water chambers, a combustion chamber of refractory material, the Water chambers or steam and water chambers enveloping the combustion chamher and so placed with reference thereto that the water in the water chambers or in thewater and steam chambers will cool the refractory material, the combustion chamber being closed except at or near the bottom.

17. In a boiler, steamand water chambers forming a combustion chamber, and-also a Water channehthe combustion chamber being openat the bottom so that the products of combustion will double back upon themselvesbefore escaping from the combustlon and a casing forming with the steam and Water chambers and their connections passageways wherein the combustible elements move progressively from the center outwardly.

18. In a boiler, the combination of steam and water chambers forming with their connectionsa combustion chamber, an inlet for hot gases, an outlet for cool gases located at or near the bottom of the chamber, said chamber being closed except at or near the bottom, whereby all the products of 19. In a device of the class described,

steam or steam and water chambers forming a combustion chamber, said combustion chamber closed except at or near the bottom whereby allthe products of combustion are caused to double back upon themselves before escaping from the combustion chamber, means for supplying fuel to the combustion chamber at or near said bottom, and means for conveying away the gases also located at or near the bottom of the chamber, as'and for the purpose set forth.

20.- In a boiler, the combination of water chambers and steam and water chambers which with their connections form a combustion chamber substantially closed exce t at or near the bottom whereby all the pro ucts of combustion are caused to double back upon themselves before escaping from the combustion chamber, and a fuel inlet located at or near the bottom of said chamber,

substantially as described.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at the city, county and State of New York, this 13th day of June, 1906.

CLAUDE A. BETTINGTON.

In presence of JOHN J. RANAGAN, H. J. LIL LIE. 

